Improvement in billiard-cue-tip fasteners



UNITEDV .STATES ,PATENT EEICE-- JAMES L. SMITH, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE S'. MERCER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BlLLIARD-C'UE-TIPy FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,680, dated October 6, 1874; application filed June 2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES L. SMITH, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improved Billiard-Cue Clamp, of which the following isv a specification:

Figure lis a longitudinal central section of my improved billiard-cue clamp; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. l, Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same on the line 7c 7c, Fig. 1 and Fig. 4, a top or end View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

This invention relates to a new device for clamping billiard-cues while the leather tips are being applied to them, with the object of holding said tips properly against the ends of the cues, until the glue that is to hold the tips tothe cues has become properly dried.

The invention consists in the new arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully deslid down on the rods d, the space between them will be smaller than it is when said blocks are farther up. Both plates a and l) n have central openings for the admission ofthe cue, as shown. B is the cap of the clamp, being a plate with a centra-l recess in its lower face, and fitted above the top plate a. to bolts so as to raise said cap away from a, and cornpress the springs f. The blocks A A are now run down on the braces d until they rmly clamp and hold the cue in` position, or rather until they properly secure the clamp upon the cue. In this position the parts are left until the glue has sufficiently hardened that holds the tip to the cue. vWhile the clamp is applied, the springs f serve to crowd the tip tightly against the eue, and thus to insure a perfect job.

The recess in the under side of the cap B may be dispensed with, though I prefer to have it for centering the tip; and as to the wedge-shape of the blocks A, I desire it to be understood that that forni is required within the braces d, and that the appearance of said blocks lnay be varied by changing their outer edge outside of the braces d.

The blocks A may be connected together by a loose ring, E, or cord, so lthat they may be raised and lowered simultaneously.

I claim as my invention- A billiard-cue clamp provided with sliding wedges AA, in combination 'with' converging' braces d d, as set forth.

The above description of my invention signed by me this 21st day of May, 1874.

JAMES L. SMITH. Witnesses:

A. V. BErEsEN, GEORGE S. MERCER. 

